Author: Kathleen Muhle

I’ve uploaded the meeting agenda as a reference to our club events calendar and to give absent members a review of our club’s activities.

We are quickly coming to the end of the year. At our next meeting on November 19, the club will elect two new board members. Current nominations for our Board of Directors:

Anne Mullins – Our Activities Coordinator and currently serving on the board

Pam Walton – Our Membership Coordinator

The nominations are open to any club member. If you would like to run for the board please contact me at president@kwphotoclub.com to add your name to the ballot.

I’d like to also thank Connie Emerson who is leaving the board for all her years of service for the club. Connie has worn several hats over the years as Membership Coordinator and Program Coordinator. As Program Coordinator, she has provided us with month after month of outstanding programs. She and David will continue as members but taking a back seat and letting others get involved with our club. Thanks to Connie and David for adding your talents and time to make our club what it is today.

Our final workshop for 2019 is scheduled for November 9th. This is an open panel discussion on photographic equipment. Chuck calls this “The Photographers Wishlist”. Chuck will moderate with the remaining panel to talk about the specific photographic equipment and apps they use for different types of photography. This will include portraits, macro, wildlife, landscape. It should be an interesting discussion and we hope participants will get ideas for that special Christmas gift or stocking stuffer to make any photographer jump for joy.

A few more activities for 2019. November 2 a revisit to Glenwood Cemetery and Houston Murals. The first visit was during the heat of summer and humidity. Sunrise will be at 7:30 so we are hoping to get to Houston by 7 AM to catch the sunrise over Houston. Afterward, we’ll find a few more murals to photograph and possibly the Astro’s murals that are currently being created. If interested please sign up under events/activities > field trips.

December we will have our 3rd Annual Santa Shoot! This has been well received by our community and is great fun to participate in. Chuck is waiting to hear what date and will be sending out information soon. Finally, with 2020 just around the corner, Anne Mullins will be holding a 2020 Activities Planning meeting. If you would like to join her group, have a great idea for a field trip, please contact her at events@kwphotoclub.com.

The next meeting is on November 19th! One of our own, Chris Summers, will be presenting “Food Photography”. Share and Learn assignment “What is in your Backyard”! More on that in the next post. Our holiday social will be held on December 17. As in the past, the club will provide the meat and members attending bring the extras (salad, rolls, drinks, side dishes, desserts). And, for your entertainment, we will have a video of select share and learn photos and events and activities. It should be fun and hope you can arrange to come and possibly have a photo taken.

A final thanks to all our members who helped with this month’s meeting. Refreshments by Dale Barrack, Bill Staney, David Emerson and Margaret Malloy. And thanks to our door greeter Mike Dunderdale.

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The August meeting was very well attended, the signup sheet had over 45 names on it which was awesome. I do think our speaker, Ruth Hoyt, attracted several members, new and old and a few guests. Excellent talk and her PowerPoint slide show will be uploaded to our Members Only Resource section for your review.

Door Greeters needed! We have one member, Mike Dunderdale, who has volunteered to be a Door Greeter, however as he cannot come to every meeting we need a few more volunteers. Please e-mail me to add your name as a Door Greeter. Due to church policy, the door cannot be unlocked at any time. So a member must be on hand to open the door. This is also why you need to arrive between 6PM and 6:30PM. Once the meeting starts there is no one manning the door to let you in.

Our “Behind the Lens” presentation this month was presented by Emily Murphy. She presented “Miracle in a Tiny World”.

Check out the slides in the attached agenda to read about her settings and click on her video below to see the transformation from a tiny egg to an emerging butterfly.

Would you like to do a “Behind the Lens” presentation at the September meeting? If so e-mail me at president@kwphotoclub.com and I will send you the form.

The agenda is a summary of events, past, and future, that our members have enjoyed and opportunities for learning or socialization in the future. Use the agenda along with the calendar for signups and to make notes on your calendars so you don’t miss out on any field trips or presentations. We are a growing club with many new members so come early to a meeting, socialize and think about what you can do to help make our club even better. Thanks for everyones support and help!

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I was flying to NY on our meeting night so Jim Schepens, vice president conducted it. The attached agenda is a supplement to our web page giving you a summary of our events and workshops since the last meeting and those coming up. So use it as a review of the meeting and to find out what is going on if you could not be there

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Online payment of membership dues has been very well received. Jim Evrard will give a quarterly treasurers report next month so stats and figures will be discussed then.

A Directory of our members has been mentioned by several people. What do you think? I hope to put together a survey by our June meeting and to post it on the web site to facilitate your responses and questions.

Finally, as mentioned in a previous News post I am changing our Share and Learn to a Learn and Share. This will give you an opportunity to share your work with a “Behind the Lens” summary and more time on the floor of the meeting to talk about it and answer questions. This is strictly voluntary so no pressure but I have hopes that some of our more experienced members would participate at least once. Experience level is not a criteria so anyone can participate. Check out the “Learn” slide from Chuck Dugand.

Next months program by Paul Gregg, “Guadalupe Mountains National Park — A Visit and a Vision” and your Learn and Share for June 18 – “Sunset to Sunrise and Everything in Between”. Hope to see you in June and until then something to think on:

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
— Ralph Hattersley

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